Top 1200 Serious Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

My relationships have always been very serious.

Serious times require strong leadership.

You can't be serious all the time. You got to mix it up.

I'm a very serious person. Unfortunately, sometimes.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

When you're on official trips it's not a vacation, it's serious work.

We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.

I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.

Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

Laughter is more serious than tears.

When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious.

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.

I've always been pretty serious and introspective.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

People will know you’re serious when you produce.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

I like to make fun of serious matters.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

Man's most serious activity is play.

No, I don't think I'm ever going to get serious.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Any shortage of drinking water is a serious issue.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

Song writing is very serious; it is hard.

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

War's extremely serious and it saddens me.

Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

I don't think I play only serious characters.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

I want to be one of those serious, moody writers.

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious.

In the '80s, everything became too serious.

If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides telescopes are unnatural.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness is at the root of adultery, the breaking of solemn and sacred covenants to satisfy selfish lust. Selfishness is the antithesis of love. It is a cankering expression of greed. It destroys self-discipline. It obliterates loyalty. It tears up sacred covenants. It afflicts both men and women.